Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama

Kilian Schindler teaches early modern English Literature at the University of Fribourg. His dissertation on religious dissimulation in early modern drama (2019) was awarded the Martin Lehnert prize of the German Shakespeare Foundation. He is co-editor of a critical edition of Sebastian Castellio's De haereticis an sint persequendi (forthcoming).

Introduction; 1. Religious dissimulation and toleration in early modern England; 2. From Oldcastle to Falstaff: the politics of martyrdom and conformity in 1 and 2 Henry IV; 3. Falstaff revisited: Puritan nonconformity and loyal dissent in 1 Sir John Oldcastle; 4. Silence denied: Sir Thomas More and the incrimination of inward dissent; 5. Free speech and neo-stoicist inwardness: the divided delf in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall; 6. Exposing religious dissimulation: the stage Machiavel in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; 7. Semi-conformity, idolatrous pollution, and conversion: the permeable self in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair; Conclusion.